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Date:	12th October 1906
Colliery:	Bedlington
Company:	Bedlington Coal Co., Ltd.
Cause:	Fall of stone
Lives Lost:	1
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Deceased and another hewer were working together during the fore shift in a lift, 5 yards wide, in broken workings, in the Engine Plane way of the Low Main Seam of the Doctor Pit. They had holed the stook, there being still a shell of coal left, and deceased sat down to rest beside the stook, when a stone of the shape of a four-sided frustrum of a cone, with a base roughly 4½ feet square and a height of 4½ feet, fell from the roof upon him. The side of the fall next the shell of coal and the opposite side were natural slippery facings or backs; the other two sides were fractures due probably to the roof weight. No timber was set under the fall, but a pair of gears next the fast side, and a prop and plank in the same line, extended right across the place 4 feet from the face up to the stook. The deputy had examined the place before the entry of the hewers, when it appeared safe; he had not visited them while they were at work as the accident happened at 6.15 a.m. The Local Inspectors reported: "Find that the fall was caused by 'breakers' meeting with slippery 'jacks' in the roof, and is one of those lamentable unforeseen accidents."

Source:

1906 Mines Inspectors Report (Cd 3449), Newcastle District (No. 3) by J. B. Atkinson, H.M. Inspector of Mines, Page: 35, Accident Number: 70 Where to find this report

	Wilson, Matthew, aged 29, Hewer, killed by a fall of stone
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